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Event Report: A game of one half – witnessed
Attention Conservation Notice: MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson makes it half-way through a day-long academic seminar about climate change and social movements before finally losing his rag and invoking the law of two feet. Not of interest to casual readers. Or … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Democratic deficit, Event reports
Tagged academics can't help it – or us, climate camp, death by powerpoint, Dunning-Kruger, ego-fodder, ESRC, for the record – the fossil record, get your bloody gameface on, I hate it how often my wife is right and I am wrong, I loved the smell of burning bridges in the morning, internal muppetry, Irony Police, Ivory Towerers, jumps the shark, law of two feet, muppetry of the highest order, not good enough, old enough to leave when it jumps the shark, sage on the stage, screw politeness, sunk costs, there's no there there, Transitions, zuhanden, Zygmunt Bauman
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Articles Review: Crises, Camps and Citizenship
MCFly co-editor Marc Hudson reads three academic papers on the stepper at the gym. And is impressed, distressed and depressed, in that order. Compressed reviews follow. Economic and Ecological Crises: Green new deals and no-growth economies Bob Jessop Beyond the … Continue reading
Posted in academia, Article alert
Tagged Bob Jessop, climate camp, smugosphere, Transition Towns
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“Screw all the hippies”- An event report from the Big Six Energy Bash.
By Henry Davis In February 2011, Climate Camp produced a statement which contained the following: “As a movement, to be relevant, we need to move with the times. Therefore the Camp for Climate Action has decided, after much discussion and … Continue reading
“There’s no justice, there’s just us”
We asked MCFly reader “shakkka” to tell us what she thought about the past, present and future of non-violent direct action on climate change. Here’s what she sent us. (We’re publishing this today to mark this.) As Paul Mason said … Continue reading
